You could do something similar with the high cost hero cards as well.

Then shuffle those cards into the lower half of the deck to sort of ensure that not all those cards can come out too early. What I like to do is hold back maybe 3 twist and 2 master strike cards until after I've assembled the villain deck. And combined with even moderate level villains grabbing hostages, we really really struggled. We were having trouble recruiting heroes because so many expensive ones came out early. It was the bank robbery, where bystanders made the villains tougher. We had one particularly frustrating game the first night we played. Master strikes and Scheme Twists hit early on? Well, sucks to be the heroes. A bunch of high cost heroes crowd out the HQ early on? Well, nobody's going to be doing much recruiting, I guess. Looking through the other Mastermind and Scheme cards it certainly looked like we'd got off lightly.Ĭlick to expand.Not only are the masterminds and schemes variable in difficulty, but like other card based games, a certain amount of luck/randomness comes into play as well. We seemed to win quite easily, but I'm guessing that the particular combo used as an introduction is designed that way. Louder players dominating the strategy can often be an issue with co-operative games, and keeping our hands hidden would have helped prevent that. I think this was a mistake, to be honest - because it meant that everyone was giving each other too much advice about how to play which irritated my daughter and made her feel a bit browbeaten when it got to her turn and there were four other players all making suggestions about what she should be doing. Because it was our first game, we played with our hands face-up on the table rather than hidden. I got my wife this game for her birthday, and we played it for the first time yesterday.īecause it was our first game, we played with the suggested pick rather than random picks so we were fighting the Red Skull who was trying to get the Cosmic Cube.

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